Sieger Köder

For two thousand years people have walked the Stations of the Cross to remember and honor the suffering and death of Jesus. This path ends with the burial of Jesus just before Easter, the most important celebration in Christianity. How can this path transition into the message of Easter? Theo Schmidkonz has pondered this question for a long time. For what would Christian faith be without the message of the Resurrection?

No matter how badly people long for it to be so, life doesn’t ever run a straight course. Opposition, obstacles and limits thwart our desires and plans. Being able to cope with the suffering that arises in such situations requires an extraordinary approach to life. Perhaps that is why witnesses reported so thoroughly about the last days of Jesus’s life: because they recognized that these experiences are universally relevant.